Meet the editors

Prof. Liang Wang is a group leader and principal investigator at Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, China. He also works as a research fellow at the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia. He is an adjunct professor at the School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Australia. His current research interests are computa-

tional and experimental bacteriology, focusing on bacterial evolution, metabolism, and rapid diagnosis. Prof. Wang serves as an associate editor for *Frontiers in Microbiology* and is an editorial board member of *BMC Microbiology*, *PeerJ*, and *Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research*. To date, Prof. Wang has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international journals.

Professor Bing Gu is the director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, China. He is a visiting scholar at UCLA and Purdue University, USA. Dr. Gu has published more than 160 peer-reviewed papers. He is Vice Chairman of the Youth Committee of the Chinese Society of Laboratory Medicine of the Chinese

Medical Association and Vice President of the Society of Laboratory Medicine of the China Association of Medical Equipment.

Li Zhang received her MBBS from Fudan University, China, and her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK. She was a clinician at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, in Beijing before her Ph.D. study. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore before joining the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Associate Prof. Li Zhang's group investigates bacterial species that cause or

prevent inflammatory diseases and cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. They study bacterial genomes, bacterial virulence factors, interactions of bacterial pathogens and gut microbiome with the host immune system, and novel methods to modify gut and oral microbiome and to enhance antibiotic sensitivity.

Zuobin Zhu is an associate professor at Xuzhou Medical University, China. Since 2016, he has been researching microbe–host interaction and the genetic mechanisms of infertility. He has authored more than thirty papers in refereed international journals on drug resistance mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria, the relationship between intestinal microbes and host health, and the genetic mechanism of complex diseases, especially infertility.

He has edited or co-edited two books. Dr. Zhu is a member of the Microbial Genetics Committee of the Genetic Society of Jiangsu Province, a member of the Male Reproduction Branch of the Jiangsu Maternal and Child Health Care Association, and appointed head of the Xuzhou Engineering Research Center of Medical Genetics and Transformation.
